Articles
The goal of The Practice Solution Magazine is to provide practice owners with practice management information that will assist them in achieving success.
Putting New Employees on the Job
It is never too early in your career to start funding your retirement. You may only be one day out of school, but you should be thinking about and planning out a retirement fund. We have found from our surveys that…
Tips for Hiring People During the Pandemic
It is never too early in your career to start funding your retirement. You may only be one day out of school, but you should be thinking about and planning out a retirement fund. We have found from our surveys that…
How to Guarantee a Satisfactory Retirement Fund
It is never too early in your career to start funding your retirement. You may only be one day out of school, but you should be thinking about and planning out a retirement fund. We have found from our surveys that…
10 Steps You Must Do Before Selling Your Practice
The factors that make your practice salable include a good management team, steady profits, patient/client loyalty, a solid reputation, predictable transferability and…
How To Keep Your Team On-Task Over The Holidays
The holiday season is here, and with it comes every distraction that could push your employees off-task. Candy, costumes, decorations, vacation…the list is endless.
In this article, we’ll share…
5 Biggest Mistakes Practice Owners & Managers Make In Handling Employees Over The Holidays
The holidays can be a fun and festive time in your practice, but they also bring a few HR headaches to watch out for.
Here are the most common mistakes to avoid this holiday season…
What is Your Responsibility to Your Staff?
Just as your staff has responsibilities to you and your practice, you likewise have several responsibilities to your practice and staff.
The complexity of active leadership can be best understood by breaking it down into its essential and integral parts…
Did you hire the wrong person?
A recent survey conducted with practice owners across the US revealed that the number-one management problem they have is personnel issues. Among the issues mentioned by hundreds of owners surveyed were…
Vital Steps for Collecting Money Over the Phone
In any practice, Accounts Receivable exist. Whoever collects money in your organization needs to know that this particular job has a two-fold purpose…
Turn a 40+ hour week into a 30 hour week and stay profitable
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
The Responsibilities of Managers and Staff
Dealing with staff can often be a confusing and complex subject. Certainly if a staff member was overtly unwilling, refusing to do what was expected, gossiping, constantly complaining and so on, this is a staff member you wouldn’t tolerate. On the other hand…
Screening Applicants
Finding a new employee is a very time consuming process. To consolidate efforts and streamline the initial stage of the interview and selection process, have all of the applicants who meet the basic criteria…
How to Increase Your Collections
Every doctor has a different idea about what a good collection percentage is as well as how to collect money for services rendered.
Resolving Negativity in the Office
Since dealing with staff bickering and personality conflicts can be a major source of stress in an office, knowing how to deal with it can be extremely useful. When you let employee situations linger too long…
How to Handle Confrontation With Your Staff
A very common confession I hear when I analyze practices is that the executive isn’t good with confrontation and thus lets things slide when they shouldn’t. I want to address this issue for a number of reasons: